2022 PIANO COMPETITION FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

THE 2022 FINAL ROUND OF THE COMPETITION WILL BE HELD LIVE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 12 at M. Steinert & Sons Newton

The judges would like to acknowledge and congratulate all the participants and their teachers in this year’s competition for their excellence and high level of performance.

Here is the list of participants who have moved on to the Final Round of the Competition:

DIVISION I

101 – Amy Ren Student of David Hovanes

102 – Kingsley Chen Student of Victor Rosenbaum

104 – Ethan Wei Student of Estelle Lin

105 – Yueqi Lao Student of Simon Xu

106 – Nicole Akhunova Student of Galina Scholten-Makarevitch

109 – Kailin Zhang Student of Natalia Harlap

110 – Claire Li Student of Michael Thomopoulos

118 – Sophia Popescu Student of Tanya Schwartzman

125 – Thea Xu Student of Yidan Guo

128 – Scarlett Yi Student of Tanya Schwartzman

130 – Felix Liao Student of Eleanor Livitz

DIVISION II

202 – Bingye Ren Student of A. Ramon Rivera

207 – Adalia Wen Student of Sandra Hebert

210 – Lawrence Luo Student of John Adams

212 – Laetitia Ji Student of Max Levinson

213 – Evan Wei Student of Estelle Lin

222 – Claire Tong Student of Natalia Harlap

223 – Arden Quan Student of Natalia Harlap

226 – Flora Quan Student of Natalia Harlap

227 – Luca Daptardar Student of Nilly Shilo

235 – Emily Zhou Student of Niva Fried

238 – Ian Lin Student of Tanya Schwartzman

239 – Julia Zhou Student of Ronald Kmiec and Niva Fried

248 – Joanna Zhao Student of Niva Fried

260 – Eunha Basu Student of Niva Fried

265 – Ryan Prentice Student of Helena Vesterman

267 – Benjamin Choi Student of Heeyeon Chi

DIVISION III

305 – Christopher Tillen Student of Erin Lindsey

306 – Julian Raheb Student of Adrienne Kim

307 – Yixiu Lin Student of Matti Raekallio

316 – Evan Huang Student of Mila Filatova

319 – Nathaniel Su Student of Niva Fried

324 – Benjamin Shaar Student of Nilly Shilo